worth

Etymology 1
From, from , from ; from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
 * 2) Deserving of.
 * 3)  Valuable, worthwhile.
 * 4) Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
 * 1) Deserving of.
 * 2)  Valuable, worthwhile.
 * 3) Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
 * 1)  Valuable, worthwhile.
 * 2) Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
 * 1) Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

Usage notes
The modern adjectival senses of worth compare two noun phrases, prompting some sources to classify the word as a preposition. Most, however, list it an adjective, some with notes like "governing a noun with prepositional force." Fowler's Modern English Usage says, "the adjective worth requires what is most easily described as an object."

Joan Maling (1983) shows that worth is best analysed as a preposition rather than an adjective. CGEL (2002) analyzes it as an adjective.

Compare:
 * Organic strawberries are worth paying extra money for.
 * It's worth paying extra money for organic strawberries.

When "worth" is used as an adjective of a subject, the verb "to be" (usually associated with "worth") is singular or plural in accordance with the subject (in the first example, in the plural). In the other case, shown in the second example, the subject is the pronoun "it".

Translations

 * Arabic: مَاثَلَ
 * Belarusian: ва́рты
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: mající hodnotu
 * Danish: værd
 * Dutch: gelijkwaardig aan,
 * Esperanto: valora
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 값나가다
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, verdt
 * Nynorsk: verd
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fiach
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, değerinde
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: اِسْتَحَقَّ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: zasluhující si
 * Danish: værd
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hindi:, , , क़द्र
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 값어치있다,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, verdt
 * Nynorsk: verd
 * Polish: zasługujący (na coś), (czegoś)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fiach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: que vale la pena
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Arabic: اِسْتَحَقَّ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: rovnající se,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Korean: 값어치있다
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fiach
 * Ukrainian:

Noun

 * 1)  Value.
 * They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.
 * 1)  Merit, excellence.
 * Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
 * 1)  Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions.
 * 2)  An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
 * 3)  High social standing, noble rank.
 * 1)  Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions.
 * 2)  An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
 * 3)  High social standing, noble rank.
 * 1)  An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
 * 2)  High social standing, noble rank.
 * 1)  High social standing, noble rank.

Derived terms

 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth
 * /tuppenceworth

Translations

 * Arabic: قِيمَة
 * Belarusian: цана́,, цэ́ннасць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏧᎬᏩᎶᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸
 * Higaonon: bli
 * Hindi: क़ीमत, क़द्र
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, ,
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:
 * Maranao: bansa
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: دكر
 * Plautdietsch: Wieet
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fiach, luach, fiù
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Tocharian B: kare
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: ,

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), Latin.

Verb

 * 1)  To be, become, betide.
 * (May good fortune befall you, my friend.)
 * (May good fortune befall you, my friend.)
 * (May good fortune befall you, my friend.)
 * (May good fortune befall you, my friend.)

Etymology
Permanently lenited form of.

Usage notes

 * When compared to, this word is used much less frequently.

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  Worth doing; worth the time, effort, etc.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Valuable, worth while.